Daven Henze

  • Associate Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Education: B.S., University of Washington (2001), M.S., Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (2004, 2007)
Teaching: MCEN 4131 Air Pollution Control, MCEN 5161 Aerosols, MCEN 5228 Inverse Methods, MCEN 6228 Numerical Methods 
Research: Aerosols and Air Quality, Climatology and atmospheric chemistry, Adjoint sensitivity analysis, Data assimilation and remote sensing & modeling tools      

Office: ECNW 160A

Honors and Distinctions:

  • S.P. Chip and Lori Johnson Faculty Fellowship, 2017
  • Provost's Faculty Achievement Award, ²ÊÃñ±¦µä., 2014
  • Dean's Jr Faculty Performance Award, CU College of Eng., 2013
  • Woodward Outstanding Faculty Award, CU Mech Eng., 2013
  • Outstanding Research Award, CU Mech Eng., 2012
  • Sullivan-Carlson Innovation in Education Award, 2012
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Education Award, CU Mech Eng., 2011
  • NASA New Investigator Program, 2010
  • EPA Early Career, 2009
  • Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University, 2007
  • William and Sonya Davidow Graduate Fellow, Caltech, 2007

Recent Publications:
** denotes work done in collaboration with graduate students
* denotes work done in collaboration with undergraduate students

  • **Lee, H.-M., F. Paulot, D. K. Henze, K. Travis, D. J. Jacob, L. H. Pardo, B. Schichtel, Sources of nitrogen deposition in Federal Class I areas in the US, Atmos. Chem. Phys, 16, 525-540, doi:10.5194/acp-16-1-2016, 2016.
  • Bousserez, N., D. K. Henze, *A. Perkins, K. W. Bowman, M. Lee, J. Liu, D. B. A. Jones, and F. Deng, Improved analysis error covariance matrix estimates for variational inverse problems, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 141: 1906–1921, do:10.1002/qj.2495; 2015.
  • Bousserez, N., D. K. Henze, *B. Rooney, *A. Perkins, K. J. Wecht, A. J. Turner, V. Natraj, J. R. Worden, Constraints on methane emissions in North America from future geostationary remote sensing measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 19017-19044, doi:10.5194/acpd-15-19017-2015, 2015.
  • **Lapina, K., D. K. Henze, J. B. Milford, C. Cuvelier, and *M. Seltzer, Implications of RCP Scenarios for future changes in vegetative exposure to ozone in the Western U.S., Geophys. Res. Let., 42, 4190--4198, doi:10.1002/2015GL063529, 2015.
  • **Lacey, F., and D. K. Henze, Global climate impacts of country-level primary carbonaceous aerosol from solid-fuel cookstove emissions, Environ. Res. Lett., 10, 114003, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/114003, 2015.
  • **Turner, M., D. K. Henze, A. Hakami, S. Capps, S. Zhao, J. Resler, Jaroslav, G. Carmichael, C. Stanier, J. Baek, A. Sandu, A. Russell, A. Nenes, P. Percell, R. Pinder, S. Napelenok, J. Bash, T. Chai, Tianfeng, Sector-specific health impacts of BC emissions in six urban US regions, Environ. Res. Lett., 10, 114014, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/114014, 2015.
  • **Zhu, L., D. K. Henze, J. O. Bash, K. E. Cady-Pereira, M. W. Shephard, M. Luo, ***S. L. Capps, Sources and impacts of atmospheric NH3: Current understanding and frontiers for modeling, measurements, and remote sensing, Current Pollution Reports, 1 (2), 95–116, 2015.
  • **Turner, M., D. K. Henze, A. Hakami, S. Zhao, J. Resler, Jaroslav, G. Carmichael, C. Stanier, J. Baek, A. Sandu, A. Russell, A. Nenes, G.-R. Jeong, ***S. Capps, P. Percell, R. Pinder, S. Napelenok, J. Bash, T. Chai, Tianfeng, Differences Between Magnitudes and Health Impacts of BC Emissions Across the US Using 12km Scale Seasonal Source Apportionment, Environ. Sci. Technol., 49 (7), pp 4362–4371, doi:10.1021/es505968b, 2015.
  • **Zhu, L., D. K. Henze, J. Bash, G. Jeong, K. Cady-Pereira, M. Shephard, M. Luo, F. Paulot, and S. Capps, Global evaluation of ammonia bi-directional exchange, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 12823-12843, doi:10.5194/acp-15-12823-2015, 2015.
  • **Guerrette, J., and D. K. Henze, Development and application of the WRFPLUS-Chem online chemistry adjoint and WRFDA-Chem assimilation system, Geosi. Mod. Devel., 8, 1857-1876, doi:10.5194/gmd- 8-1857-2015, 2015.
  • Kharol, S., R. V. Martin, S. Philip, S. Vogel*, D. K. Henze, D. Chen, Y. Wang, Q. Zhang, C. L. Heald, Persistent Sensitivity of Asian Aerosol to Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 1021-1026, doi:10.1002/grl.50234, 2013.
  • Turner, A.*, D. K. Henze, R. V. Martin, and A. Hakami, The spatial extent of source influences on modeled column concentrations of short-lived species,  Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L12806, doi:10.1029/2012GL051832, 2012.
  • **Turner, M. D., D. K. Henze, and J. B. Milford, Comparison of multiple risk-based approaches to air pollution management, submitted.